a; and English troops were expected in Virginia. "Alas! my dear
friend!" wrote Madame la Presidente de Mouchy, from Quebec, to her young
friend George Warrington. "How contrary is the destiny to us! I see you
quitting the embrace of an adored mother to precipitate yourself in the
arms of Bellona. I see you pass wounded after combats. I hesitate almost
to wish victory to our lilies when I behold you ranged under the
banners of the Leopard. There are enmities which the heart does not
recognise--ours assuredly are at peace among the tumults. All here love
and salute you, as well as Monsieur the Bear-hunter, your brother (that
cold Hippolyte who preferred the chase to the soft conversation of our
ladies!) Your friend, your enemy, the Chevalier de la Jabotiere, burns
to meet on the field of Mars his generous rival. M. Du Quesne spoke
of you last night at supper. M. Du Quesne, my husband, send affectuous
remembrances to their young friend, with which are ever joined those of
your sincere Presidente de Mouchy."

"The banner of the Leopard," of which George's fair correspondent wrote,
was, indeed, flung out to the winds, and a number of the king's soldiers
were rallied round it. It was resolved to wrest from the French all the
conquests they had made upon British dominion. A couple of regiments
were raised and paid by the king in America, and a fleet with a couple
more was despatched from home under an experienced commander. In
February, 1755, Commodore Keppel, in the famous ship Centurion, in which
Anson had made his voyage round the world, anchored in Hampton Roads
with two ships of war under his command, and having on board General
Braddock, his staff, and a part of his troops. Mr. Braddock was
appointed by the Duke. A hundred years ago the Duke of Cumberland was
called The Duke par excellence in England--as another famous warrior has
since been called. Not so great a Duke certainly was that first-named
Prince as his party esteemed him, and surely not so bad a one as his
enemies have painted him. A fleet of transports speedily followed Prince
William's general, bringing stores, and men, and money in plenty.

The great man landed his troops at Alexandria on the Potomac river, and
repaired to Annapolis in Maryland, where he ordered the governors of the
different colonies to meet him in council, urging them each to call upon
their respective provinces to help the common cause in this strait.

The arrival of the General and his